*zidanni-
‘man (in diminutive form)’
- Language
- Luwian in Old Assyrian transmission
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 445
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Old Assyrian transmission
*zidanni-
‘man (in diminutive form)’1.1.1Transmission
Reconstructed from a personal name attested in an Old Assyrian document.
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1.1.2Forms
| Zi-tá-ni | Kt 94/k 833 |
The attestation and reading follow Yakubovich 2010d:215 and Kloekhorst 2019b:62, since the text is still unpublished.
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1.1.3Meaning ‘man (in diminutive form)’
Based on the probable hypothesis that the underlying word is Luwian *zidanna/i-, see under Origin.
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1.1.4Origin
Yakubovich 2010d:216 cautiously identified the underlying word with Luwian zida/i- ‘man’ enlarged with the diminutive suffix -anna/i- (followed by HEG:767; rejected by Kloekhorst 2019b:62, 65 without any argument). Although he duly notes that formally the suffix might have been an originally Akkadian suffix, he rightly calls attention to the fact (Yakubovich 2010d:216 n. 12) that this Zidani directly corresponds to the name Zidanni attested in the Hittite period (Laroche 1966b:211).
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Last updated: 29 June 2020